Comments on: #187 Fiwi, RPN Calculators, Set YouTube to High Quality, DeskLickr

By: podfeet

podfeet — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:46:33 +0000

Oh heck Mike, you’re not late at all! And you know what, now that you mention it I DO remember it being an add on piece of hardware, I’d forgotten all about that till you said it!

And yes, I get that stoopid PrError every time I open Nonpariel. I wrote to the developer after I did this show and told him that’s why I don’t use it either. Actually you first have to turn it on, which is kinda dopey and then you have to hit clear to clear the Pr Error. I don’t use it much any more because that annoys the daylights out of me too. Unfortunately I didn’t hear back from him yet, so for now it gathers a bit of electronic dust.

I’m amazed how many HP RPN fans there are out here!

By: Michael Tobin

Michael Tobin — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:47:49 +0000

I know this is awfully late, but I feel obligated to correct one point. The HP-41CV didn’t come with a magnetic card reader. No HP-41 came with a magnetic card reader, because the magnetic card reader was an attached accessory that could be used with any HP-41.

http://www.hpmuseum.org/41acc.jpg

Also, am I the only person who gets a “Pr Error” crash every time I start up the Nonpariel Mac versions of the HP-11c thru 16c, like the one you have pictured? I find this annoying enough that I don’t use these versions of Nonpariel.

Michael Tobin

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:00:06 +0000

Hi Allison-
I would like to share my thoughts on the online Windows communities. For the pc user ‘Yahoo Answers’ is a place to get “how to” help on just about any computer related subject. For the geekier mcse types, my favorite place to get help (and to help others) is at the Mark Minasi tech forums. Sometimes google is still the best place to get help especially when you can type in the text of an error message (I know, there is no shortage of those).
When I see discussions about how pc’s are getting mucked up and slow I wonder how that is possible, I never have any such problems. It doesn’t take long though for reality to set in, and then I think back to all of my family and friends computers and how much time I spend fixing them! Like last weekend when I fixed a friends computers and my brothers computer too. Hey it’s good for the social life I guess, since some of these friends I would hardly ever see if it wasn’t for Windows. How is that for looking on the bright side?

Phil

By: Debbie T

Debbie T — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:40:49 +0000

Oopps, forgot something. (although the Rick Astley comment does deserve it’s own comment alone)

You probably already got other emails about this, but Windows does indeed allow a zip archive to be made by right-clicking on a file or folder, same as OS X. I think it started w/ XP.

and I totally loved the CCATP this week.